Monsters in America
Author: W. Scott Poole
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781481308823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonsters are here to stay.--Christopher James Blythe "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"
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Prehistoric Monsters
Author: Allen A. Debus
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-21
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0786458151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Monsters and Monarchs
Author: Debbie Felton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2021-07-27
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1477323066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Locusta of Gaul. If that last name doesn’t seem to fit with the others, it’s likely because our modern society largely believes that serial killers are a recent phenomenon. Not so, argues Debbie Felton—in fact, there’s ample evidence to show that serial killers stalked the ancient world just as they do the modern one. Felton brings this evidence to light in Monsters and Monarchs, and in doing so, forces us to rethink the assumption that serial killers arise from problems unique to modern society. Exploring a trove of stories from classical antiquity, she uncovers mythological monsters and human criminals that fit many serial killer profiles: the highway killers confronted by the Greek hero Theseus, such as Procrustes, who tortured and mutilated their victims; the Sphinx, or “strangler,” from the story of Oedipus; child-killing demons and witches, which could explain abnormal infant deaths; and historical figures such as Locusta of Gaul, the most notorious poisoner in the early Roman Empire. Redefining our understanding of serial killers and their origins, Monsters and Monarchs changes how we view both ancient Greek and Roman society and the modern-day killers whose stories still captivate the public today.
Strange Monsters of the Recent Past
Author: Howard Waldrop
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780441160693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDragons of the Deep
Author: Carl Wieland
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780890514245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Monsters" once swam through Earth's oceans, and they were likely the inspiration for ancient sightings by mariners who described fantastic encounters on the open seas. In this colorful new book, Dr. Carl Wieland's laymen-friendly descriptions are complemented by beautiful illustrations. Readers will be amazed that these complex, huge beasts actually lived. This book provides a thoroughly biblical analysis, insisting that these "dragons of the sea" came into existence during the Creation Week as outlined in Genesis. Dragons of the Deep is totally evolution free, explaining the facts about fossils from a biblical perspective--Answers In Genesis.
Turtles as Hopeful Monsters
Author: Olivier Rieppel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-03-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0253025079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible, incisive look at different theories of biological evolution and their proponents, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters tells the fascinating evolutionary story of the shelled reptiles. Paleontologist Olivier Rieppel traces the evolution of turtles from over 220 million years ago, examining closely the relationship of turtles to other reptiles and charting the development of the shell. Turtle issues fuel a debate between proponents of gradual evolutionary change and authors favoring change through bursts and leaps of macromutation. The first book-length popular history of its type, this indispensable resource is an engaging read for all those fascinated by this ubiquitous and uniquely shaped reptile.
The Shapeshifters
Author: Stefan Spjut
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 054408408X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar off the grid in northern Sweden, a small network of people have been tasked with hiding the last remaining trolls from the public eye, and one young woman will do whatever it takes to bring the truth to light, in this literary thriller that is "intensely riveting and constantly surprising" (Karl-Ove Knausgard).
Monsters of Maryland
Author: Ed Okonowicz
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0811745759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures . . . * Bigfoot * Sea Serpent Chessie * The Snarly Yow * The Bunnyman * Other stange beasts, including goatmen, swamp monsters, and others
American Monsters
Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1101625287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America—including Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more. Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and thunderbirds aren’t just figments of our overactive imaginations—according to thousands of eyewitnesses, they exist, in every corner of the United States. Throughout America’s history, shocked onlookers have seen unbelievable creatures of every stripe—from sea serpents to apelike beings, giant bats to monkeymen—in every region. Author, investigator, and creature expert Linda S. Godfrey brings the same fearless reporting she lent to Real Wolfmen to this essential guide, using historical record, present-day news reports, and eyewitness interviews to examine this hidden menagerie of America’s homegrown beasts.
The Monster That Is History
Author: David Der-Wei Wang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-10-04
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780520937246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese—often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude—this book places its arguments along two related axes: history and representation, modernity and monstrosity. Wang considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, and personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events. His discussion ranges from the politics of decapitation to the poetics of suicide, and from the typology of hunger and starvation to the technology of crime and punishment.
